Description: Flowers in Watercolour comprises 10 tutorials for painting beautiful flowers and arrangements for the absolute beginner.
Offering essential advice, techniques and inspiration presented through step-by-step instruction and a variety of templates, this comprehensive guide teaches aspiring artists how to paint flowers with confidence.
The book includes 10 subjects to paint, including wildflowers, garden favorites and exotic blooms. It also contains 'focus on' spreads that provide greater detail and more advanced techniques to try. It is designed to act not only as a guide to flower painting, but an introduction to the medium of watercolor.
Tutorials include daisies, peonies, lilies, ferns, ivy, wildflowers, and poppies.
Review Quotes: "...this book teaches artists to capture the delicate beauty of blooms. From wildflowers to exotic garden favourites, this guide offers step-by-step instruction, essential techniques and inspiration, helping beginners and enthusiasts alike paint flowers with confidence and bring luminous watercolour compositions vividly to life." -- Artists & Illustrators
"The exercises and their accompanying instructions are presented simply, but thoroughly, and there are detailed illustrations where you want them... Don't be put off by the implied simplicity, this book has much to offer." --The Artist
"There is a very good variety of subjects and approaches range from quite soft to sharply delineated edges. All of this suggests authors who are confident with their subjects, materials and ways of both working and explaining. At 96 pages, it's a relatively short book, but it packs a lot in and the price is extraordinarily reasonable for what it offers."--Art Book Review
"...an ideal and unreservedly recommended DIY instructional guide and 'how to' manual for painting in watercolor all manner of flowers. Flowers in Watercolour is an ideal addition to personal, professional, community, and art school collections and supplemental art classroom curriculums." --Mid-West Book Review